Ian Witterick is the Surgeon-in-Chief at Sinai Health in Toronto and a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (TFoM) at the University of Toronto (UofT). He completed his 10-year term in June 2022 as the George and Helen Vari Chair of the Department of OHNS at the UofT. He is a Past President of both the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (CSO-HNS) and the North American Skull Base Society. He is the current Chair of the Skull Base Section for the American Head and Neck Society and a member of the steering committee for the World Congress on Thyroid Cancer.

In education, he has been a Program Director, Director of Continuing Professional Development, Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada OHNS Examination Committee and a member of their Accreditation Committee as well as Chair of the TFoM’s Education Committee. He has received several education awards from the TFoM including the Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) Award for Development and Innovation, the Colin R. Woolf Award for Long-Term Contribution in Continuing Education and the Charles Mickle Fellowship Award (the highest award in PGME in the TFoM). At the CSO-HNS, he has received the Education Excellence Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journal of OHNS. Within the TFoM’s Department of OHNS he has received the Teacher of the Year Award, Distinguished Alumnus Award and Resident Advocate Award (twice). He has published and lectured widely in the fields of head & neck oncology, rhinology and anterior skull base surgery.